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source of revenue for its owner, and that which may have been 

 years accumulating is ready and available at any time, the fertility 

 of the land being a bank upon which the farmer can draw. 



The CHAIR: You have heard the report of your Committee. 

 What is your pleasure? 



MR. STOUT: I want to call your attention to an error. I think 

 Mr. McGowau stated eleven per cent, of nitrogen in the common 

 manure; I think he meant to say eleven pounds instead of eleven 

 per cent. 



MR. McGOWAN: That is right. Eleven per cent, would be 220 

 pounds; that w^ouldn't do. 



MR. HERR. I move that the report be received and placed on 

 file. The motion being seconded, it was agreed to. 



The CHAIR: Have you any remarks to make on the reports that 

 have been received? 



MR. NELSON: I would like to call the attention of members of 

 the Board who are present to that honey-comb full of foul brood 

 that Prof. Surface laid down there. He had it passed around so 

 that we might have an opportunity to examine it. Nothing has 

 been said yet about it, and a great many people do not know that 

 foul brood only attacks young bees between the age of three and 

 twenty-one days. By examining that comb you will see how the 

 disease is so contagious. The honey is healthy enough for a live 

 bee to eat, provided they do not feed it to the young bees within 

 the ages mentioned. The germs of the bacteria only attack the 

 bee in its larvae stage. The young bee dies in the cell, and cannot 

 be removed by the old bee. 



The SECRETARY: I think you have all heard the story of the 

 man out in Illinois who w^as devoted to raising pigs, and some 

 one asked him why he raised so many hogs, and he said that he did 

 that in order that he might sell the pork, with which to buy more 

 land on which to raise more corn with which to feed more hogs with 

 which to buy more land, and so on everlastingly. I think we are 

 all interested in the swine-growing proposition, though we don't 

 do nearly so much of it as is done in the State of Illinois. We have 

 the pleasure and good fortune of having a citizen of the State of 

 Illinois with us as a visitor, therefore, I move you that Mr. Love- 

 joy, of Illinois, have the privileges of the floor, and that we extend 

 to him an invitation to talk to us along any line that may suggest 

 itself to his own mind. 



The motion being seconded, it was agreed to. 



Mr. Lovejoy addressed the Board as follow^s: 



STATE FAIRS. 



Our State Board of Agriculture is a very differently organized 

 body from this. Our Board is non-political and its membershij) 

 comes from every Congressional District in the State. The mem- 



